If you have long stereo extension cords (you can get them at radio shack) you can send the sound that normally goes out to speakers out to your computer soundcard's in... (get a Y thingy and you can send to both)...
then just download audacity and the lame dll to export mp3s from audacity and you've just given yourself one heck of a cool little system to record tons of mp3 music at home off of satellite... there are other ways of doing this, especially if you have a dvb card, but for those of ya that have slower computers and/or just a fta box instead of a dvb card, it's a pretty sweet option... I think most mp3s created this way are pretty slim... so you can fit 8+ hours on to a cd or several days worth of mp3s on to a dvd... I'd love to find myself a walkman that plays dvds, but sony's dvd walkman is a bit pricy for my blood at the moment, so I'll stick with cds!
You can use a similar setup to record off of the radio... just hook up to your radio's headphones jack... but what's nice about satellite radio is that most of it's usually pretty commercial free! Major bonus if you are recording stuff to play back at work where you aren't allowed to have internet radio!!!!
I've had this speaker line here a long time using it to send signals from the computer to the tv... mainly to watch nbc stuff off of their website on the tv in the living room if we forgot to use the vcr the night before... Hooking it up like this, just moving the cord from the audigy's line in to the audigy's headphone jack gives me a lot more usability of this setup!.. Just gotta swap the cords when I want to watch internet stuff on main living room tv (Heroes mainly is what we did use it for a while back,etc. )... You can run two audio cords if you want... but I don't mind swapping jacks... have to swap an a/b coax from ota to computer graphic's card signal anyways, so swapping another thing in the setup isn't really that big of a deal.
You will get really long mp3s if you don't sit in front of computer and tell audigy to turn on and off after each song (which is why the dvb card way of doing this stuff is better in some ways), but it's not a half bad way to pull down some songs to listen to after you record to cd... don't like a song... just fast foward... unfortunately, you won't be able to skip much if you have 8+ hours and want to jump to hour 3 or something, but most mp3 players and/or players on work computers have easy ways to fast foward.
then just download audacity and the lame dll to export mp3s from audacity and you've just given yourself one heck of a cool little system to record tons of mp3 music at home off of satellite... there are other ways of doing this, especially if you have a dvb card, but for those of ya that have slower computers and/or just a fta box instead of a dvb card, it's a pretty sweet option... I think most mp3s created this way are pretty slim... so you can fit 8+ hours on to a cd or several days worth of mp3s on to a dvd... I'd love to find myself a walkman that plays dvds, but sony's dvd walkman is a bit pricy for my blood at the moment, so I'll stick with cds!
You can use a similar setup to record off of the radio... just hook up to your radio's headphones jack... but what's nice about satellite radio is that most of it's usually pretty commercial free! Major bonus if you are recording stuff to play back at work where you aren't allowed to have internet radio!!!!
I've had this speaker line here a long time using it to send signals from the computer to the tv... mainly to watch nbc stuff off of their website on the tv in the living room if we forgot to use the vcr the night before... Hooking it up like this, just moving the cord from the audigy's line in to the audigy's headphone jack gives me a lot more usability of this setup!.. Just gotta swap the cords when I want to watch internet stuff on main living room tv (Heroes mainly is what we did use it for a while back,etc. )... You can run two audio cords if you want... but I don't mind swapping jacks... have to swap an a/b coax from ota to computer graphic's card signal anyways, so swapping another thing in the setup isn't really that big of a deal.
You will get really long mp3s if you don't sit in front of computer and tell audigy to turn on and off after each song (which is why the dvb card way of doing this stuff is better in some ways), but it's not a half bad way to pull down some songs to listen to after you record to cd... don't like a song... just fast foward... unfortunately, you won't be able to skip much if you have 8+ hours and want to jump to hour 3 or something, but most mp3 players and/or players on work computers have easy ways to fast foward.
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